muddy
adjective
abounding in or covered with mud.
muddies
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present tense formof muddy (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Instead, it muddies the waters and pretends to be deep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
This all in turn muddies the water for getting accurate state and federal case counts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Old inventory muddies the income statement. Cohort performance tells you that this new Opendoor 2.0 machine works.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
The first pull on Haaland muddies the waters.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
He did what they would not, as the thrall who pulls off our boots muddies his hands that we may keep ours clean.
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
